Education: Report Card

¶Why does Johnny hate his math? The Carnegie Corporation of New York
suggested one reason. In a special survey, the Educational Testing
Service of Princeton, N.J. found that "although all states require
education courses for secondary mathematics teachers, a third of the
states require no mathematics for certification of math teachers . . . In
the majority of instances, a prospective elementary-school teacher can
enter a teachers college without any credits in secondary-school math.
In most states a teacher can be certified to teach elementary-school
math without any work in math at the college level." "Under such
circumstances," adds the corporation,...